
Kahakauwila’s greatest talent is her ability to move heavy thematic freight at high velocity. Tyler McMahon writes in his introduction to " Novels Masquerading as Stories: An Interview with Kristiana Kahakauwila," published in the Fiction Writer's Review, that the stories in THIS IS PARADISE are "long and immersive, ambitious in their scope and lush in their atmosphere, relevant, big-hearted, and intensely readable.

He asked terrific interview questions as part of his enthusiastic review for This is Paradise. The Long Beach Post wrote about the event in glowing terms.Īnd as long as we're talking about promoting women writers, Bill Wolfe's blog " Read Her Like an Open Book" features a man who reads nothing but books by women. The Long Beach Literary Women Festival in March 2014 was a special homecoming for me because I grew up in the LBC.
